[liberationtech] Snowden: Unencrypted Journalist-Source Communications "Unforgivably Reckless"

[James S. Tyre]

The passage Nadim highlights is of course quite appropriate for this list.  But for those
who have some extra time (it's very long) the whole article is worth reading.

 

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From: liberationtech-bounces at lists.stanford.edu
[mailto:liberationtech-bounces at lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Nadim Kobeissi
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:00 AM
To: liberationtech
Subject: [liberationtech] Snowden: Unencrypted Journalist-Source Communications
"Unforgivably Reckless"

 

Hey LibTech,

 

In a recently published interview with the New York Times, Edward Snowden called
unencrypted communications between journalists and sources "unforgivably reckless":

 

"I was surprised to realize that there were people in news organizations who didn't
recognize any unencrypted message sent over the Internet is being delivered to every
intelligence service in the world. In the wake of this year's disclosures, it should be
clear that unencrypted journalist-source communication is unforgivably reckless."

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/snowden-maass-transcript.html

 

I hope sending this along will be useful for journalists on this list as well as for those
who need extra material to help them convince their journalist friends to adopt
privacy-preserving practices. As usual, I'll take the opportunity to again vouch for the
need for accessible, easy to use encryption, like what Guardian Project, Whisper Systems
and Cryptocat are working on.

 

NK

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